-----Original Message-----
Here are some entries. The refrenced server cbtloan is
not a dc. I have combed ntdsutil and not found a refrence.
DCpromo Log
Searching for a domain controller for the domain (null)
that contains the account COMMUNITYBRANCH$
02/17 11:11:56 [INFO] Located domain controller
cbtloan.community.com for domain (null)
02/17 11:11:56 [INFO] Searching for the machine
account ...
02/17 11:11:56 [INFO] Searching for the machine account
for COMMUNITYBRANCH$ on \\cbtloan.community.com...
02/17 11:11:56 [INFO] Configuring the server account
02/17 11:12:13 [INFO] NtdsSetReplicaMachineAccount
returned 0
02/17 11:12:13 [INFO] Moved account
community\administrator to CN=COMMUNITYBRANCH,OU=Domain
Controllers,DC=community,DC=com
02/17 11:12:13 [INFO] Setting security for server ...
02/17 11:14:35 [INFO] Setting security for server finished
02/17 11:15:36 [INFO] Canceling current operation...
02/17 11:15:36 [INFO] Request for cancel returning 8222
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Promotion request for replica
domain controller
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] DnsDomainName community.com
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] ReplicaPartner (NULL)
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] SiteName (NULL)
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] DsDatabasePath D:\WINNT\NTDS,
DsLogPath D:\WINNT\NTDS
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] SystemVolumeRootPath
C:\WINNT\SYSVOL
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Account community\administrator
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Options 196
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Validate supplied paths
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Validating path D:\WINNT\NTDS.
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Path is a directory
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Path is on a fixed disk drive.
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Validating path D:\WINNT\NTDS.
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Path is a directory
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Path is on a fixed disk drive.
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Validating path C:\WINNT\SYSVOL.
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Path is on a fixed disk drive.
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Path is on an NTFS volume
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Start the worker task
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Request for promotion returning 0
02/17 11:25:29 [INFO] Searching for a domain controller
for the domain community.com that contains the account
COMMUNITYBRANCH$
02/17 11:25:46 [ERROR] Failed to find a DC for domain
community.com: 1355
02/17 11:25:46 [ERROR] Failed to get domain controller
for account COMMUNITYBRANCH$ (1355)
02/17 11:25:46 [INFO] Error - Failed finding a suitable
domain controller for the domain community.com
(1355)
02/17 11:25:46 [INFO] The attempted domain controller
operation has completed
02/17 11:25:46 [INFO] DsRolepSetOperationDone returned 0
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] Promotion request for replica
domain controller
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] DnsDomainName community.com
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] ReplicaPartner (NULL)
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] SiteName (NULL)
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] DsDatabasePath D:\WINNT\NTDS,
DsLogPath D:\WINNT\NTDS
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] SystemVolumeRootPath
C:\WINNT\SYSVOL
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] Account community\administrator
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] Options 196
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] Validate supplied paths
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] Validating path D:\WINNT\NTDS.
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] Path is a directory
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] Path is on a fixed disk drive.
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] Validating path D:\WINNT\NTDS.
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] Path is a directory
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] Path is on a fixed disk drive.
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] Validating path C:\WINNT\SYSVOL.
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] Path is on a fixed disk drive.
02/17 12:48:13 [INFO] Path is on an NTFS volume
02/17 12:48:14 [INFO] Start the worker task
02/17 12:48:14 [INFO] Request for promotion returning 0
02/17 12:48:14 [INFO] Searching for a domain controller
for the domain community.com that contains the account
COMMUNITYBRANCH$
02/17 12:48:31 [ERROR] Failed to find a DC for domain
community.com: 1355
02/17 12:48:31 [ERROR] Failed to get domain controller
for account COMMUNITYBRANCH$ (1355)
02/17 12:48:31 [INFO] Error - Failed finding a suitable
domain controller for the domain community.com
DCDiag
Starting test: Advertising
Warning: DsGetDcName returned information for
\\cbtbh.community.com, when we were trying to reach
COMMUNITYBRANCH.
Server is not responding or is not considered
suitable.
The DC COMMUNITYBRANCH is advertising itself as
a DC and having a DS.
The DC COMMUNITYBRANCH is advertising as an LDAP
server
The DC COMMUNITYBRANCH is advertising as having
a writeable directory
The DC COMMUNITYBRANCH is advertising as a Key
Distribution Center
The DC COMMUNITYBRANCH is advertising as a time
server
......................... COMMUNITYBRANCH failed
test Advertising
Net Diag
Gathering IPX configuration information.
Querying status of the Netcard drivers... Passed
Testing IpConfig - pinging the Primary WINS server...
Passed
Testing IpConfig - pinging the Secondary WINS
server... Passed
Testing Domain membership... Failed
[WARNING] Member : Netlogon service is not running.
Passed
App Log
6/18/2003 2:59:11 AM 1 0 1000
Userenv NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
COMMUNITYBRANCH The Group Policy client-side
extension Security was passed flags (273) and returned a
failure status code of (1208).
6/18/2003 3:31:12 AM 2 0 1202
SceCli N/A COMMUNITYBRANCH Security policies
are propagated with warning. 0x4b8 : An extended error
has occurred. Please look for more details in
TroubleShooting section in Security Help.
6/18/2003 3:31:12 AM 1 0 1000
Userenv NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM
COMMUNITYBRANCH The Group Policy client-side
extension Security was passed flags (305) and returned a
failure status code of (1208).
-----Original Message-----
Cut and paste errors from the dcdiag report and
netdiag
report. Check the DS
log, app log and sys log for errors. Remember to post full errors.
--
Tim Hines, MCSE, MCSA
Windows 2000 Directory Services
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